The anniversary of the botched evacuation of Kabul in 2021 brought back memories. My honored alma mater, the 82nd Airborne Division was called in at the last second to enforce the final stage of the pullout. Lack of leadership resulted in the loss of 13 heroes despite the best of efforts by the servicemen and women performing that evacuation, plus the disastrous rescue of thousands of US citizens and locals who helped us for the past 20 years.
I was attending the 75th annual convention of the 82nd Airborne Division Association in the days before this epic ending of our war in Afghanistan, in Houston where my brother from my time at Bragg in the mid-80's is currently the Chairman of the local Houston chapter that hosted the convention that year, and put together this little video about what it felt like when we heard the news break:
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